Sat May 19 21:43:54
It happened in India so I'm sure he'll be fine.
..and again, LL's racism is inaccurate: "I guess he missed the "srippery ren ret " sign" — like, no.. this is India, not China or Korea.. come on, people; be better than this ;)

@swordtail link from last thread:
D:
.. not a surprise to see the very Chinese-looking streets. Not much conscience there.

"screwing w/ the volume knob seems to get it to switch for me "
I can only hear "Laurel" :( .. messed with volume and tried with headphones and regular PC speakers.. just not hearing a "y" sound anywhere.

"the episode punishment was pretty good too"
lol :D .. sort of different from their usual public humiliation; they didn't give him much of a chance to wiggle out of doing that wrong :D

"i guess she was getting alarmingly close as he walked towards her"
Yeah, umm.. what? .. He approaches *her*... that really is just awful awful training. Even the "Take one more step and I will shoot you" was bad — like, no.. give options for positive outcomes, don't just tempt the negative one(s). And some of the idiot comments.. the other side of the argument seems to be that the cop might have been protecting others by shooting her.. yeah fucking right. This was gross incompetence.

..Imgur keeps pretending that they don't care about some sort of royal wedding that's happening and about some kind of large amount of media coverage that it's being given.. but they keep posting lots of memes about it... like.. if you don't care.. then don't care.

Sat May 19 22:10:41
the Yanny/Laurel thing may be more about listener age & pitch / speaker construction or something... there's a science video explaining it... perhaps was my head moving to adjust volume that caused a switch for me... as with magnets: fucking sound waves, how do they work? :p

Sun May 20 18:10:11
This is an old (2016, and for posterity, it's 2018) Coyote video, but someone posted it on Imgur.. and it's pretty neat... so... :)
Coyote plays with a wild ocelot kitten
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oSh_zOaVFk

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Sun May 20 22:38:07
i think i watched it before but found the all caps 'ATTACK' title misleading :p

Mon May 21 14:29:49
Cougar kills mountain biker, injures another in Washington state

The cougar appeared to be stalking two men as they rode their bikes over the weekend in the Cascade Mountains near Seattle. Then suddenly the animal charged, the survivor of the fatal cougar attack told authorities.

The survivor said he hit the cougar in the head with his mountain bike, and the animal ran into the woods. But as the men were catching their breath and getting back on the bicycles, the animal returned and fastened its mouth on the man's head, crunching down, shaking him side to side like prey.

The man managed to get loose from the cougar when the animal decided to chase the man's friend, who was running away.

...

When the cougar released him, Sederbaum jumped back on his mountain bike to get away. As he looked back, he saw the cougar dragging Brooks into the woods.

Mon May 21 19:20:55
that kid looked white... seems like they should be asian

Cherub Cow
Member

Mon May 21 19:25:39
Their friends will just be disappointed that they can't move while in vehicle mode ;p

I wonder if cougars like the taste of people? The gore details don't mention how much was eaten.. but these were apparently fat people, so running away and being tired and unable to help makes sense? They never publish the important stuff ;)

The Onion got me to look at the real story behind one of their "Voices" articles..
"A 14th human foot — this one in a hiking boot — washes ashore in Canada"
[Washington Post: May 13th, 2018 Article]
http://www...rect=on&utm_term=.e41e6d8c6932
Article TLDR:
Probably not a serial killer. Most of the feet have been accounted for (traced to likely suicides and stuff), "Autopsies indicated the feet had not been mechanically removed but rather separated through the natural processes that occur in a marine environment," and "the materials used to make modern-day running shoes allow the feet to remain buoyant after they become separated from the rest of the body in the sea."

Cherub Cow
Member

Mon May 21 19:27:41
Starbucks just doesn't quite get it! ;)

"Desperate Starbucks Now Pleading For People To Masturbate, Use Drugs In Its Restrooms"
[Onion: News in Brief]
http://www...-people-to-masturba-1826200909
"SEATTLE, WA—In an effort to restore the company’s battered image in the wake of recent controversies, desperate Starbucks officials openly begged Monday for people to masturbate and use drugs in the coffee shop chain’s restrooms. “Please, just come in and do whatever the hell you want in the bathroom—feel free to shoot up or whack off—we’ll give you the code, no questions asked,” said Starbucks spokesperson Haley Drage, clarifying that, if a customer wished to stimulate their genitalia to the point of orgasm or snort a line of cocaine elsewhere in the store, they were also more than welcome to do so among the tables, while waiting in line, or behind the service counter. “We implore customers to just visit our locations. You don’t even have to buy anything; in fact, if you can provide proof you’ve masturbated or taken drugs in one of our stores, you can visit the counter for a free tall beverage of your choice. Come on, please just do this for us. Please?” At press time, the manager of a Starbucks in Phoenix, AZ had reportedly called the police on a black customer after he failed to masturbate or do any drugs within the first five minutes of his visit."

Tue May 22 14:25:45
State Supreme Court Justice Donald Greenwood tried everything he could today to convince a 30-year-old man to move out of his parents' Camillus house on his own.

But after half an hour of back-and-forth, primarily between the son, Michael Rotondo, and the judge, the judge had had enough:

Rotondo would have to move out, the judge ruled. He also ordered adult protective services to investigate, expressing concern about what was going on.

That order capped a surreal 30-minute court appearance in which Rotondo didn't deny that his parents had given him multiple orders to leave their 408 Weatheridge Drive home. But Rotondo wasn't going to leave without a legal battle.

Greenwood listened quietly to Michael Rotondo's argument that he was entitled to six months more time. He gently corrected Rotondo by pointing to an appellate court decision ruling that family members don't get special treatment absent rare circumstances. And he praised Rotondo for his legal research.

looking semi-carefully i think eagle mostly or only gripped onto the rabbit so hopefully fox was ok

Cherub Cow
Member

Tue May 22 19:09:57
yeah D: ... rabbits can be cute, but fox kit takes cuteness priority in that situation. Also looks like the fox heard the eagle (it turned right before the attack)?.. pretty kewls!

..
"cops keep urging guy to break into his home when his girlfriend has locked him out... he finally does it & some trouble ensues"

..I don't even know whose side to take.. probably the boyfriend's, actually, since the girlfriend could have had the police mediate a peaceable moving out, but instead she just buttoned the place up. I knew someone who did that: broke up and made it super uncomfortable for her BF to pick up his stuff by calling the police when he showed up (he announced ahead of time) for his things. In that situation, there had never been any violence or intimidation in the relationship, so it was like, "Why would you be mean like that? Just let him get his things." I think she was just pissed that she'd wasted so much time with him ;p

..
"original skit:"

Had never seen that :D ... a little bit uncomfortable in this version :p

..
"Got an Evel Catnievel over here."

Pretty cool, right? :D .. surprising that it was at all willing to make that jump. That's the kind of cat I'd like — not loser cats like my [former] friend's who treated her cat like a home-schooled maladaptive and never let it outside even though cats crave adventure. It's like: yeah, it's dangerous out, and your cat may die.. but better that than never letting it *liiiiiiivvvvvve!!!* ;p

Yeah that's pretty extreme D: .. >:D ... should we worry that they were willing to continue even past the use of the safe word? I don't, because they're friends and this is their thing, but should the public "we"? ;p

The cat one was a lot funnier — like the random cat sitting on his chest and meowing :D

Fri May 25 02:57:28
This is so romantic ♥:)
"Funeral Attendees Getting Misty-Eyed During First Dance With Corpse"
[Onion: News in Brief]
http://loc...-during-first-dance-1826288592
"FRANKLIN, TN—Wiping away bittersweet tears as the lights dimmed and the lovely couple took the floor for the first time as widower and wife, attendees at the funeral of Martha Bowers got misty-eyed Thursday during the traditional first dance with the corpse. “You could just see the love in [Phillip Bowers’] eyes when he took her flaccid hand in his and guided her carefully to the dance floor, and everyone was amazed at how beautiful she looked in her burial dress,” said longtime family friend Clara Adler, tearing up along with the couple’s other friends and loved ones as the opening strains of Etta James’ “At Last” filled the funeral parlor. “Just seeing her out there, swaying along with him, draped over his shoulder for the first time in this new stage of their, you know, their lives...it’s so touching. You can see tears glistening in his eyes. This is the moment when he knows—it’s forever.” At press time, the funeral attendees had taken the floor and joined a conga line led by Mrs. Bower’s earthly remains."

i guess that's permanent, it's worded different than their temporary 'free to play' weekend things they sometimes have

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Fri May 25 14:17:28
Two weeks ago, a woman in Portland learned that her Amazon Echo device had recorded and sent a private conversation between her and her husband to one of his employees in Seattle without their knowledge.

According to Amazon, Alexa misunderstood their discussion about hardwood floors as a series of commands to send their conversation to the man in Seattle. In a statement to Gizmodo, the online shopping giant confirmed that the Echo device “woke up due to a word in background conversation sounding like ‘Alexa.’” The statement continued:

Then, the subsequent conversation was heard as a “send message” request. At which point, Alexa said out loud “To whom?” At which point, the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the customers contact list. Alexa then asked out loud, “[contact name], right?” Alexa then interpreted background conversation as “right.” As unlikely as this string of events is, we are evaluating options to make this case even less likely.

@movie posters
Twilight had some pretty violent scenes (lots of head-ripping-off in the last two movies), so I'd guess that this person only watched the first one :p
.. but "PG-13 Battle Royale" is appropriate :D
.. also liked "the good steve jobs movie not the ashton kutcher one", since Kutcher got way too pretentious with that one.

"^^ that's some seriously grim Onion :p"
I think they wrote that one for my tastes! ;D

"Steam has "Galactic Civilizations II:Ultimate Edition" as a 'free giveaway' til Saturday"
Hadn't heard of it, but after watching a YouTube tutorial.. it reminds me a little of "Emperor of the Fading Suns"..

Fri May 25 19:12:46
Yay! Only a few minutes on Imgur before finding a post that means that I don't even need to keep looking for animal gifs :D
"super happy fun time cute animal gif dump explosion extravaganza"
http://imgur.com/gallery/jYVp5yO

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Fri May 25 23:35:53
i'm unfamiliar w/ Emperor of the Fading Suns... i tried Gal Civ 2 (since free) but doesn't seem as good as other games of that genre to me

there's some 'spring cleaning' event on Steam too... do Steam badges have any tangible benefit? i never bothered to figure out what they were all about

Sun May 27 23:45:40
He looked determined! Some people like the thrill of being closer to being apprehended, so they'll slow down a little.. but he went full speed :D

..
"i'm unfamiliar w/ Emperor of the Fading Suns.."

It wasn't too popular, but I remember it because the opening cinematic was neat (it sort of sampled from LOTR's ring thing: "Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky..."), and I played the demo a *lot* (never the full version) so I got really good at getting a lot done on the demo map ;D .. it was basically just turn-based space expansion.

Mon May 28 02:06:39
If you've been getting all of those annoying e-mails about the EU's new privacy policy law... Clickhole has a response :)

"ClickHole Is Updating Its Privacy Policy"
[Clickhole: News]
http://www...-its-privacy-policy-1826303565
Highlights:
"the exploitation of your information is something ClickHole takes incredibly seriously, as our entire business model depends on it.
The following updates are effective immediately:
...
• If law enforcement ever requests your data as part of a criminal investigation, we will immediately say “sure” and turn it over and then amongst ourselves mutter, “Yeesh, wonder what that was about.”
...
• ClickHole is now free, and all automatic charges to ClickHole readers’ bank accounts ($5 per article) will cease as of May 25, 2018.
...
• ClickHole reserves the right to harvest your name, email, phone number, and financial information, but we are only doing it to try to figure out if you use earplugs. All we want to know is how you feel about earplugs. Please just tell us and then we won’t have to log all of this data about you. Thank you."

swordtail
Anarchist Prime

Mon May 28 08:32:05
In Japan, a Buddhist Funeral Service for Robot Dogs

An electronics repair company gives a compassionate farewell to mechanical pets, with a traditional ceremony held in a historic temple.

Tue May 29 00:39:40
Another from the same person (though this one didn't get to the front page):
http://imgur.com/gallery/GqTx8os
..and it has sound available. I did not know until now that Imgur supported sound after their recent update... cat meows commence! ;p

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Tue May 29 00:49:55
^i think he's just trying to show off his watch
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Tue May 29 01:31:55
"savage, asymmetric warfare!" ;)
..must have had a bad day? Also looks like some words were exchanged.

McKobb
Member

Tue May 29 02:58:50
When did imgur get the sound?

Cherub Cow
Member

Tue May 29 06:13:10
Very recently; I think it’s only been a week since their new video controls appeared

McKobb
Member

Tue May 29 07:25:06
Talkies!

Cherub Cow
Member

Wed May 30 01:20:50
"Waste Of Time: Starbucks Closed Down For Anti-Bias Training Today Even Though We’ve Moved On And Are Mad About Other Things Now"
[Clickhole: Blog]
http://res...-for-anti-bias-trai-1826399378
"Now that the whole story about two innocent black men being arrested in one of its stores is a distant memory, Starbucks has made the baffling decision to waste a huge amount of everyone’s time and attention today by closing down for anti-bias training even though the #Resistance has moved on and we’re mad about other things now. What a pointless move by Starbucks to address a now-boring issue we already got all mad about last month instead of protesting an outrage that we actually care about.

It would have been an awesome gesture if Starbucks were closing down today so it could address something we’re mad about right now, like the racist Twitter rant Roseanne Barr went on this morning, but instead the Seattle-based coffee franchise is holding a now-useless racial-discrimination training because of an outrage that we barely even remember and stopped tweeting about weeks ago and that basically has nothing to do with the stuff we’re currently furious about, like President Trump.

Listen, Starbucks, if you really wanted to help out the #Resistance, you’d be holding a seminar about something like Trump’s boneheaded Memorial Day tweet, or the Russia investigation. So please, stop wasting everyone’s time rehashing that racism thing that practically happened last decade and start talking about the things we’re mad about right now."

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Wed May 30 17:20:55
I'm in LA for a few days visiting family... my sister-in-law says that Starbucks policy really is causing problems with homeless people and drugs, so that other Onion piece not too off. I didn't ask about the masturbating element :p. I imagine some bathing going on in the bathrooms though.

Cherub Cow
Member

Thu May 31 17:01:30
Yeah :/ .. they should have just doubled down and said, "Fuck anyone who doesn't buy at least one item in a 2 hour period." :p

You should have timed your L.A. visit with McKobb's! :D
How have the homeless and the crazy drivers been?

..
Imgurians making good use of the new sound option (it was enabled last week on PCs and was just enabled on Mobile yesterday):
(pupper grunt-barking)
http://imgur.com/gallery/U2aJLaW

Thu May 31 21:56:38
Until today, I forgot to check if 5sf did a "Cinco de Mayo" video this year (kind of a tradition of theirs). They did:
"The Reckoning of Cinco de Mayo"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nAzlxbyiwQ
They actually built the buttroxx.com website for the video (a satire of people who cry, "White privilege"). Fun quote from the buttroxx "About" page: "I got bullied mercilessly by everyone in high school, including teachers, and I’ve still never met anyone as mean as the staff at Buttroxx. They’re the best. — Burt Gempfer, Vox.com"

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Thu May 31 22:42:16
the homeless seem to be prospering (in that there appears to be more around)

I got to see a black guy being arrested... they had him sitting on the curb, and when they told him to lay down he stood up, so for a brief moment there was hope of some action... but nothing went down and they just cuffed him standing and put him in a car :/

Fri Jun 01 20:17:19
More slave morality logic:
"Oregon Bakery Fires Employees For Denying Black Woman Service After Closing"
http://abc...ck-woman-service-after-closing
TLDR: Two white women enter a bakery after its closing time. They're told that the bakery is closed. A black woman then enters and is told the same thing. The black woman claims racism ( http://www.facebook.com/1417321/videos/10102370907379415 ), and the bakery fires the employees, explaining, "this is more about how a black woman was made to feel"

Cherub Cow
Member

Fri Jun 01 21:01:38
Ol’ Musky is in some new heat:
"More Bad Press For Elon: The Car Elon Musk Launched Into Orbit Has Fallen Back Down To Earth And Crushed Malala Yousafzai"
[Clickhole: News]
http://www...n-musk-launched-int-1826423029
(article wasn't too funny; mostly just a good headline)

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Sat Jun 02 09:44:46
Wow lots to be annoyed at in that Oregon article... like why is Lilian in quotes each time?... and they basically admit they caved only to public misinformation... and racist 'reparations happy hour'...

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Sat Jun 02 09:49:13
a weird thing going on here in LA of young people lining up to get into overpriced clothing stores... including sidewalk barricades and bouncers to keep order

And the stores seem to have plenty of room inside for more people, not crowded at all looking

'Supreme' and 'Golf' both on Fairfax seemed to have lines all day... a $200 polka dot jacket was first/only thing I looked at on Supreme's website

Sun Jun 03 14:17:02
Actor Bigglesbee Cogglesvitch, who plays detective Sherlock Holmes in the television series Sherlock, foiled an attempted robbery by fighting off a gang of muggers in London. The attack occurred near his fictional character's home on Baker Street.

Uber driver Manuel Dias, 53, told The Sun, "I was taking Bumblezot and his wife to a club — but I didn't know it was him at first."

"I went to turn down into Marylebone High Street and we saw four guys were pushing around a Deliveroo cyclist. My passenger jumped out, ran over and pulled the men away. They turned towards him and things looked like they were getting worse, so I joined in. He stood there instructing them in the street, shouting, 'Leave him alone.' "

"Then it all got a bit surreal. Here was Sherlock Holmes fighting off four attackers just round the corner from Baker Street," Dias continued. "I had hold of one lad and Frodobick another. He seemed to know exactly what he was doing. He was very brave. He did most of it, to be honest. They tried to hit him, but he defended himself and pushed them away. He wasn't injured. Then I think they also recognized it was Zizzlewatt and ran away."

tumbleweed
the wanderer

Sun Jun 03 16:51:02
i slept in an airport last night... the plane arrived fine but things were backed up so we sat on the Tarmac (w/ Jalad) for about an hour, just enough to miss the connecting flight that didn't wait a minute for the at least 6 of us doing same connection sitting out there

there had to have been at least 100 people lined up at the customer service counter where we got off the plane, not sure how many planes total were sitting around... they should let people just walk off & use the employee doors... or use the shuttle buses...

the nice thing is they provided lots of cots, a cheap pillow & blanket, bottle of water, a bag w/ toothbrush/mouthwash/light-blocking blindfold... not sure i slept ever but was better than sitting

(got a flight 12 hrs later than original, home now)

Cherub Cow
Member

Tue Jun 05 01:16:31
Tarmac! And Jalad! At, the airport! ;)
Surprising that the other plane didn't wait. Usually the airlines all agree to delay flights a little so that they don't have to pay for hotels. Maybe a pilot got impatient or the Excel spreadsheet said it would be cheaper to inconvenience people? Either way, flying always seems awful.
Welcome home! \:D/

"Wow lots to be annoyed at in that Oregon article... like why is Lilian in quotes each time?... and they basically admit they caved only to public misinformation... and racist 'reparations happy hour'..."

..Oh I didn't notice the quotation marks thing... that article has some grammatical errors aside from that, so probably ABC St. Louis needs a better editor ;p
..And def funny that they outright admitted that a subjective perception was more important than the wider reality — they even admit that nothing racist actually happened. Makes me think it would be fun to own a business where employees were told that they can outright tell asshole customers to fuck off >:D
..the reparations thing is hilarious. That's part of the extreme result of racial guilt: people who think that a restart via wealth redistribution would be a functional solution.
..the Twitter that ABC used has continued to track the story: http://twi...ck-woman-service-after-closing .. some of the things that the business owners said were pretty funny, like how they want to create "inclusive spaces for community to gather around inclusive food" ... "inclusive food"? wut? I keep wanting this to turn out to be a big hoax.

..
The pink wall looks like a Paul Smith shop? That *does* seem familiar from movies or something, but definitely not as cool as the Griffith Observatory :p

..
Birkenstock Cartonpacker seems to lead an exciting life. Very human. Not alien at all.

Tue Jun 05 14:25:52
So cool :o ... until they got closer, I thought the tall light in the distance was just a large tree fire or something. That's a lot of lava. I'd been to Halema'uma'u years ago (2011?)... awesome to see it exploded-looking, even if not awesome for locals :p ... neat animation gif of the lava flow progress here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_lower_Puna_eruption

..
"maybe if they branded people who accept the reparations happy hour to mark them as repaid, it would be more fair"

That's a good idea! >:p .. at the very least, there should be a box in tax forms that asks a person's yearly reparations gains. ;)

Cherub Cow
Member

Tue Jun 05 14:25:56
"But bulldozer day is on the 4th"

Oops! Posted after midnight and forgot to issue a retraction. We at CherubCow Publishing LTD sincerely apologize for the misprint. As a sign of our renewed commitment to meme-ology, have some German shenanigans :D
http://imgur.com/gallery/zmA0bwY